LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8327, 8 January 1907, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Masterton Rechabite Tent will hold their quarterly meeting this evening. . A house at Pahiatua, owned by Mr Munro, and occupied by Mr Glennon, was destroyed by fire early on Sunday morning. At Palmerston North, yesterday, a man named W. Wood was sentenced to two months' imprisonment on two charges of selling indecent pictures. It is understood in Dunedin that a further conference of woollen manufacturers will be held in Christchurch, . to-day, regarding the position of the industry in Newj Zealand. New regulations for the grading of flax will shortly be brought into operation. The various qualities will be" so graded that a clear distinction will be made between coarse and fine grades. Cr J. C. Ewington has given notice that he will move at the meeting of the Masterton Borough Council, this evening, that the number of Councillors be increased from nine to twelve.

Thirty-seven bands have entered for the Exhibition Band Contest, including Newcastle and Code's Band (Melbourne). Lieut. W. G. Bentley, of Sydney, a British Army bandmaster, will be,judge. The pronounced success of the military tournament held recently in connection with the Exhibition, has actuated the Government in deciding that such a tournament shall be held every year. The next will be held at Auckland in January, 1908.

At Christchurch, on Friday, the jumping mare Lady Morton, belonging to Wirth's circus, broke the Australasian high jump record. She cleared 7ft Of in, which is l&in above the record established by Mahonga at Bendigo. Miss Howell, sister of Mr R. E. Howell, of Masterton, is still lying seriously ill at Castlepoint, and her condition is causing her friends much anxiety. Owing to the state of her health it has been deemed advisable not. to bring her into Masterton yet. During the year ended December 31st, 232 persons (225 males and 7 females) were taken into custody lor drunkenness in, Masterton. Gf this total 172 (167 males and 5 females) were summarily convicted, and 113 (109 males and 4 females) were fined. Sixty were discharged with a caution.

A cablegram has been received in Wanganui from Sydney asking whether Webb, the oarsman who beat Stanbury on Boxing Day on the Wanganui River, would go to Sydney and join Durnan's "stable." It is improbable that Webb will go. It is rumoured that he will be challenged by a Napier oarsman. The total number of convictions for drunkenness in Dannevirke during last year was 227, or an increase of 46 on the previous year. The total number of arrests made by the police for all classes of offences during the year was 389, 'or an increase of 62 on the''y ear 1905. This is a considerable increase since , 1899, when the total number of cases was 92., A Blenheim telegram states that a man, named Herbert Kerr, a wharf labourer, aged 30, married, was lost off a small steamer about a mile from the Wa'irau Bar on Sunday. He was throwing a bucket to get water, and was pulled overboard. He was unable to swim. Pieces of hatches were thrown to the struggling man, but he failed to grasp them and sank. William Alexander Watts, commission agent, resident at Havelock North, and his son William, a boy of eleven years of age, were drowned in the Ngaruroro River about 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. They were bathing, when the boy got out of his depth, and his father went to his assistance. Neither could swim, and both were drowned. A younger son, about ten years of age, who was standing on the bank, witnessed the sad accident and at once gave the alarm. The / bodies were recovered. At the inquest a verdict of accidentally drowned was returned.

The Manawatu Standard remark's: •—"Mr P. C. Freeth, who has relinquished control of pur local contemporary (the Manawatu Daily Times), has decided to take a trip abroad prior %o getting into harness again. Mr Freeth' has been a , resident of Palmerston for four years, anel has taken a prominent part in public affairs during that period, winning the esteem of a large number of people in the community. He has been identified with the Chamber of Commerce, and is President of the Beautifying Association, besides) assisting other desirable institutions. Mr Freeth conducted our contemporary in a successful manner, and wrote boldly and vigorously on any public question that required attention. He is a journalist of the strenuous type, one who prefers to wear out instead of rusting, and those who are in opposition to him in business, realise the necessity"'of keeping up to the mark. We Jhave always found Mr Freeth an honourable opponent, and having reached the parting of the ways, we can honestly say we entertain nothing but the warmest feeling towards -him, and we wish him well in his future career. As he has proved himself a worthy citizen and good fellow at heart, we are confident the townspeople will not allow him to depart without a suitable acknowledgment of the services he has rendered the town."

MEKIT AWARDED BY COURT OF > JUSTICE. i The acknowledged good qualities "and sucoess of SANDER & SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT have brought out mariy imitations, and one ease was just tried in the Supreme Court of Viotoria, before his Honour Chief Justice Sir J. Madden K.C.M.G., etc. His Honour, when giving udement said with regard to the GENUINE SANDER .& SONS' EUCALYPTI EXTRACT, that whenever an article is commended to the public by reason of its good quality, etc.it is not permissible to imitate any„ of its features. He restrained the imitators perpetually from doing so, and ordered them to pay all costs. We publish this to afford thepublio an opportunity of protecting themselves and of securing what, is proved beyond all doubt by skilled witnesses at the Supreme Court of Victoria and by many authorities during the last 30 years to be a preparation of genuine merit, viz., THE GENUINE SANDER * SONS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT.

The Chinamen of Dannevirke have subscribed £lB 9s 6d towards the * local Hospital. A man named Thomas Phillips, of Waimate, working on the Midland Railway, dropped dead at 10 o'clock l on Sunday night. , A child, named Lords, son of a Ruatangata settler, died as the result of being kicked on the head by a horse last Sunday. Colonial mails, which left Auckland by the R.M.S. Sonoma on the Ist of December via San Francisco, arrived in London onv the 6th of January. The New Zealand Times states that no news had been received up to Sunday night of the whereabouts of tha Wellington-owned schooner ' Emma Sims, sixteen days out from Wellington to Onehunga. During 1906 the Christchurch City Council granted 665 permits to erect buildings in the city. , The total value of the, buildings was £384,000. This does not include the Exhibition Buildings. j A prominent New Zealand breeder of Jerseys recently visited Australia, with the object of buying some stock to improve his herd, but he has returned convinced that New Zealand breeders need not go beyond their own colony for the best colonial type I of Jerseys. At Whangarei on Saturday, Mr Matthew Watson Armstrong, a member of the Auckland Crown Lands Boara, while riding, collided with a trap through his hoi-se taking frightj and sustained two broken ribs. Mr x Clark Walker came into collision with the same vehicle, and had a leg broken. \ i\y An exchange says that there is a probability that the annual encampments of Volunteer battalions will not be held next jEaster, preference being given to the idea of a mobilisa- « tion camp at Christchurch in connec--tion with the Exhibition, on account of the greater educative value from a military standpoint.

Under the contract with the Spreckels Company for the maintenance of the San Francisco mail service (says the New Zealand Times) the New Zealand Government guaranteed a minimum amount of mail matter each year, at the same-time stipulating for a maximum. Now that the contract has expired the company will simply be paid pound- / age rates on the mails carried. Some idea of the great expenses which have to be met under the item' "travelling" by C. Williamson,, may be gathered from the cost of carrying the Royal Comic Opera Company, which is at present in Wellingon,, to and from New Zealand. That.organisation when on tour now ninety members, and for fares alone for the round trip to New Zealand and back, the bill amounted to over £2,000. Nine picks, a pick handle, and an axe, valued at £2 ss& the property of the Carterton Borough Council, were missed on Friday morning; and on Saturday Constable Griffiths proceeded to Te Wharau and arrested .two young, men employed on the Craigie Lea Road. Charged before ✓ Mr Hornsby, J.P., on Saturday, ,the accused were remanded till this morning, bail being allowed infpersonal sureties of £lO each and* another surety of £lO. An important step ni the treatment of persons mentally afflicted is to be taken by the Government, viz., the establishment in each of the four centres of what is known as "a*halfway house," to which persons can be committed for observation and special'. treatment in the early stages of the , malady. At present there is no'such provision for persons who are feebleminded, and it has long been urged on the Government that many cures might be effected if they, were placed under proper treatment before themalady had developed. At Auckland, land is to be taken for the purpose,, and the Waitati Hoiise at Dunedin is being utilised. , The question of providing such an institution at Wellington is under consideration.

The Wanganui Chamber,of Commerce has discovered something' en--tirely new. The president has wired' to the Minister of Railways:—"Your instructions withholding name of' consignors of goods by rail causing) inconvenience and loss. Business ' people protesting.'' The Herald says:—"These instructions were apparently issued to the railway officials; all over New Zealand simply to save the Audit Department or some other public office a little work, and without the slightest regard to the very great inconvenience ■ and loss it will '} entail on business people." The Railway Department, which might be expected to have cognisance of its own crimes, is trying hard to discover what it is all about.

On Sunday afternoon, says the Carterton News, when walking over his farm at Taratahi, Mr James; Biggins saw a fire start fl ! in a paddock apparently without human aid, and fanned by a light breeze, dart in serpentine flames through the long grass. He immediately obtained help, and half-a-dozen people attacked the fire with tree branches and sacks. It was making in the direction Mr John i Ray's property, and both Mr and Mrs Ray turned out and assisted in suppressing the outbreak, but not until it had blackened the face of two acres of land. Investigation at the place of origin revealed a common beer bottle. Apparently this had focussed the rays of the sun on to the grass with disastrous results. • An outbreak of fire, the first for nearly two years past, occurred at Featherston, on Saturday morning, at about two o'clock, a building occupied by Mr Stead, tailor, being gutted. The fire brigade appliances were promptly brought into use, and the outbreak was suppressed, there being an excellent supply of water from the waterworks. The greatest part of the stock, which was insured for £SO, was saved, v A Modekw Digestive. ' One of Dr -Sheldon's Digestive Tabules will digest 1500 grains of meats, eggs, and other wholesome food. They are a Renuine tonic, because they bring about ia the only natural way a restoration of nerve.power, a building up of lost tissue and appetite by the. digestion and assimilation of wholepomefood. They can'A help but do you good. If or sale by H. E. Eton, Chemist, Masterton, J. Badlie, Carterton, and the Mauriceville Co-operative Store, Mauriceville West.

The, new electorate of Tauranga lias a population of 10,209, while that of the Bay of Plenty reaches 10,070. Mr H. E. Hart has been appointed secretary to the Wairarapa Bacon and Freezing Company, vice Mr -Currie, resigned. There are several fine crops of wheat at Waihakeke, those of Messrs H. Peters and F. Court being particularly good. Auckland's share, this year, of the ordinary vote for school buildings throughout the colony will amount to about £12,250. The total amount to be distributed is £55,000. H. S. Izard, bankrupt solicitor, was released on bail from prison in Wellington, on Saturday afternoon, states the Carterton News. One of the sureties was Mr Pharazyn. s It was intended by the Hon. R. McNab to speak at Carterton, tomorrow, but, owing to the early departure of the Premier for England, he has been compelled to postpone the visit for a fortnight. The Governor will proceed to Nelson on Thursday, and, after visiting various places in Nelson, will cross to Christchurch. v He will leave Christchurch on * the 23rd for the Bluff, where he will join the Tutanekai for a trip around the Southern Islands and the Chathams. A public meeting of ratepayers is to take place at Featherston, tomorrow night, in connection with the proposal of the Town Board to raise a further loan of £7OO in connection with the water supply works —£soo for extra cost incurred, and £2OO for extending works. It is expected .that the workers' homes to be erected by the Government in Coromandel Street, Wellington, will be let at rentals of from seven to eight shillings weekly. There is room on the land for eighteen houses. They - are to be built in brick.

The Minister for Marine, Hon. J. A. Millar, is at present considering applications, about fifty of which. were received for the position of assistantsuperintendent of mercantile marine, at Auckland and Welilngton. His final choice will be referred to the Cabinet for endorsementjVery shortly. A distinct shock of earthquake was felt ;in "Wellington at about two minutes after midnight on Saturday. The disturbance appears to have been very widespread, as a Press Association message to hand records severe shocks about the same time as far as Napier in one direction, and Blenhem in another. The shock was felt in Masterton about midnight. A quantity of tar and sand was put down in Chapel Street yesterday by the Borough Council for the purpose of experimenting. It is claimed that the mixture prevents the road from breaking up in dry weather, and keeps down the dust. If the experiment turns out to be a success it is probable that the Borough Council will have the mixture spread over the principal thoroughfares in the Borough. Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., has received a telegram from the Hon. R. McNab, Minister of Lands, stating that, owing to the near departure of the Premier for England, Ministers will be busy all the week in Wellington, and he is reluctantly compelled to postpone his visit to Eketahuna on Friday next. He adds that he would visit the district a fortnight later if that would suit. Mr Hogg has telegraphed to Mr McNab asking him to fix a date for his Visit' to the district.' It is under- j stood that the Minister will be invited not only to visit Eketahuna, but also Masterton, and it is possible that he may be accompanied by some | other member of the Cabinet. "*""'

Mr W. H. Cruickshank advertises for sale 566 acres on Dreyer's Rock Road. The monthly meeting of the Masterton School Committee will be held on Thursday, at 8 p.m., in the Y,M.C.A. Building. The Maste/ton Borough Council invite tenders, to close at 4 p.m., on Tuesday next, for road works and alterations to the Druids' Hall. Messrs Ross, Greenfield and Co., land agents, advertise particulars of a number of town and country properties, which have been placed in their hands for sale. Messrs J. Montgomery and Co. announce that they have purchased the business of Messrs Rebay and Co., Queen Street, and will commence business in their new establishment to-day. An announcement appears in this issue stating that all rifles and bayonets on issue from the Masterton Rifle Cadets must be returned on or before Monday next, otherwise proceedings will be Uaken to recover same. page 1 of this issue Mr Imlay Saunders, land agent, Wanganui, ad- > vertises particulars of a number of properties which he has been instructed to sell. Mr Saunders reports that he has had enquiries for properties from the Wairarapa, and intending investors in land would do well to carefully • peruse the list advertised and to communicate promptly with him. The Pbuii- of Ouk Time Is Lung Disease, Dr Sheldon's New D scovery for Cough?, Colds and Consump tion cures' lunj; trouble. Small do?e. Pleasant to take. Every bot'le guar* anteed. For sale d.v H. E. -Eton, Chemist, Masterton, J. Baillie, Carterton, and the Mauricevilie, Co-operative Store, Manrieeville West.